Barranquilla Court revokes Dayana Jassir's freedom in less than 48 hours
The Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Barranquilla ordered the recapture of Dayana Jassir, sentenced to 57 years for the homicide of her husband, after releasing her the same Wednesday.
Two opposing decisions in 48 hours regarding Dayana Jassir's freedom
The Criminal Decision Chamber of the Superior Court of Barranquilla issued two contradictory rulings in less than two days regarding the case of Dayana Jassir De la Hoz, according to bluradio.com. Jassir is serving a sentence of 57 years and six months in prison for the aggravated homicide of her husband, Eduardo Pinto Viloria, who was director of Legal Medicine North headquarters in Barranquilla.
On Wednesday, the Court complied with a ruling from the Constitutional Court that protected Jassir's rights to due process and personal freedom. The Constitutional Court argued that the arrest order included in the sentencing lacked the required protocols of justification. Consequently, the Court ordered her release whilst the cassation appeal proceeds before the Supreme Court of Justice, and set a maximum period of 48 hours to issue a new order duly substantiated.
Within that same timeframe, the Court issued the replacement decision required and ordered Jassir's immediate capture. The new measure was based on three criteria: social ties, noting that the family formed with the victim was destroyed by the conduct that motivated her conviction; the length of the sentence, which in the Court's view represents a flight risk; and the circumstances of the case, as the person who attacked her spouse's life represents, according to the collegiate body, a risk of reoffending.
Rebeca Viloria, mother of Eduardo Pinto, harshly criticised the Constitutional Court for approving Jassir's release, even if temporarily.
"Eduardo has now passed 10 years on 4 May and we are still in the same struggle. She is given freedom and immediately she flees. A person who is sentenced to more than 50 years will not stay waiting for anything, she will leave and if she flees due to the order given by the Court, the State has to answer to me," Viloria stated.
Dayana Jassir remains confined in El Buen Pastor prison in Bogotá. It is not the first time she has faced the possibility of release whilst the Supreme Court of Justice resolves the cassation appeal against her second-instance conviction. In May she had filed a tutela with the purpose of rendering that deprivation of liberty measure ineffective.
Source: Google News CO — Bogotá